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{{quote|''"Everything in creation is flawed. Humans don't need to be mentioned. Air, intent, and even time. My eyes can see the death of things. They're special, like yours. So I can kill anything that lives. Even if that thing is God."''|'''Ryougi Shiki''', '''''[[~~Karano~~ Kyoukai|Kara no Kyoukai]]'''''}}

{{quote|''"Everything in creation is flawed. Humans don't need to be mentioned. Air, intent, and even time. My eyes can see the death of things. They're special, like yours. So I can kill anything that lives. Even if that thing is God."''|'''Ryougi Shiki''', '''''[[Kara no Kyoukai:|Kara no Kyoukai]]'''''}}

You want to brag, but you're also in the mood to do something borderline blasphemous. Well you can accomplish both at once by bragging that you've topped something a god supposedly has. So you say you have "More X Than God".

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** By this point, the Gods probably [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|lie curled up in foetal position, weeping in terror.]]

* Variant: In ''[[Hikaru no Go]]'', the go-players are looking for the so-called "Divine Hand", the ultimate answering (or preemptive) move.

* Shiki makes one in ''[[~~Karano~~ Kyoukai|Kara no Kyoukai]]'' (see quote above). {{spoiler|[[Fridge Brilliance|May not be so blasphemous after all]], considering she is connected to the Origin and is a [[Reality Warper]].}}

* Shiki makes one in ''[[Kara no Kyoukai:|Kara no Kyoukai]]'' (see quote above). {{spoiler|[[Fridge Brilliance|May not be so blasphemous after all]], considering she is connected to the Origin and is a [[Reality Warper]].}}

* At the climax of the anime of [[Devilman Lady]], the final villain claims to be the new incarnation of God. Our heroine's response? "If you're God, then I'm the Devil, and I will continue to rise from Hell to battle you!"

* In episode 11 of ''[[Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt|Panty and Stocking With Garterbelt]]'', we discover that Garterbelt the priest was formerly a crime lord, murdered and then revived. He threatened to [[Refuge in Vulgarity|break God's dick with his ass]] and then God zapped him with a [[Bolt of Divine Retribution]] that turned his hair in his famous [[Funny Afro]]. Yes, it's [[Refuge in Audacity|that kind of show]].

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== Fan Works ==

* In [[Time Braid]], Sakura once makes reference to Naruto having 'more chakra than God' after being exposed to the various side effects (namely, he can't have sex with normal women without knocking them unconscious by overwhelming them with his aura, and there's a similar problem with his using the Yamanaka mindwalk jutsu).

* "[[Nobody Dies ~~(Fanfic)~~|Welcome to NERV.]] God's in His heaven because [[More Dakka|He's scared of our superior firepower.]]"

* "[[Nobody Dies|Welcome to NERV.]] God's in His heaven because [[More Dakka|He's scared of our superior firepower.]]"

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== Video Games ==

* A variant in ''[[Super Robot Wars]]'', Sanger's [[Catch Phrase]] and [[Badass Boast]] is that "I am the sword that cleaves evil! There is nothing I cannot cut!" (Which becomes "smites evil" in the English localization.) When fighting more powerful opponents, he sometimes replaces "evil" with something more dramatic and context-appropriate, including at one point [[Deus Est Machina|"God"]].

* Near the start of the life of the ''[[~~Play Station~~]]'', Sony released an ad campaign in the US that explicitly stated that the Playstation was "More powerful than God", attempting to prove that it wasn't for kids. [[Moral Guardians|Unsurprisingly]], shortly afterwords, the campaign was taken down.

* Near the start of the life of the ''[[PlayStation]]'', Sony released an ad campaign in the US that explicitly stated that the Playstation was "More powerful than God", attempting to prove that it wasn't for kids. [[Moral Guardians|Unsurprisingly]], shortly afterwords, the campaign was taken down.

* At the end of ''[[Policenauts]]'', {{spoiler|Gates Becker}} goes on a [[Motive Rant]], claiming that God made a mistake in designing humanity as naturally unfit for life in space, and justifying the extensive organ harvesting syndicate which he oversees as merely "picking up [His] slack".

* In ''<nowiki>ÞRhapsody: A Musical AdventureÞ</nowiki>'', Marjoly claims to be mightier than God, more beautiful than Goddess, and the Devil's master.

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== Tabletop games ==

* ''[[Warhammer]]'' uses this a lot with the chaos gods. A random Chaos worshiper deems himself greater than the gods and usually finds himself cursed.

* ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]'' uses this a lot with the chaos gods. A random Chaos worshiper deems himself greater than the gods and usually finds himself cursed.

{{quote|"Your foe is well equipped, well-trained, battle-hardened. He believes his gods are on his side. Let him believe what he will. We have the tanks on ours."}}

* From the flavor text of the ''Netrunner'' card 'Fortress Architects':